July

July

See also: july

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English Julie, julye, iulius, from Anglo-Norman julie, from Old French jule, juil, from Latin iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar's month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, "descended from Jove".

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: jo͝o-līʹ; IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊˈlaɪ/
• (General American) enPR: jə-līʹ, jo͞o-līʹ; IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈlaɪ/, /d͡ʒuˈlaɪ/

• Audio (GA)

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• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Hyphenation: Ju‧ly

Proper noun

July (plural Julies or Julys)

1. The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August. Abbreviation: Jul or Jul.
2. (uncommon) A female given name from English.
   • 2004, Eric Arnesen, The Human Tradition in American Labor History, →ISBN, page 73:

     By 1880, in his early to middle twenties, he had married a literate woman named July, who would be his first of three wives. Riley continued to live close to his parents, James and Frances, whose house was just three doors down and who still had four of their own children living with them in addition to a grandson.

   • 2003, William C. Davis, Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America, →ISBN, page 153:

     In Prairie County, Arkansas, in March 1863, a black woman named July, born free in Tennessee but under indenture to a white man until she turned twenty-one, was brought before a circuit court when she was just short of reaching her age of freedom.

Derived terms

• Black July
• Christmas in July
• Fourth of July
• Holiday in July
• July 20 Plot
• July Cup
• July Days
• Julyish
• July Monarchy
• July Morning
• July Ordinances
• July Revolution
• July Stakes
• July Ultimatum
• mid-July

 

Related terms

• Julius

Descendants

• Bislama: julae
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Juulai
• Tok Pisin: Julai
• → Assamese: জুলাই (zulai)
• → Bengali: জুলাই (julai)
• → Burmese: ဇူလိုင် (juluing)
• → Chichewa: Julaye
• → Dari: جولای‎ (julây)
• → Fijian: Jiulai
• → Gilbertese: Turai
• → Hausa: Yuli
• → Hawaiian: Iulai
• → Hindi: जूलाई (jūlāī)
• → Inuktitut: ᔪᓚᐃ (yolai)
• → Malay: Julai
• → Maori: Hūrae
• → Marathi: जुलै (julai)
• → Marshallese: Juļae
• → Oriya: ଜୁଲାଇ (julai)
• → Pashto: جولای‎ (ǰolãy)
• → Pennsylvania German: Tschulei
• → Samoan: iulai
• → Swahili: Julai
• → Tahitian: tiurai
• → Telugu: జూలై (jūlai)
• → Tokelauan: Iulai
• → Tongan: Siulai
• → Tumbuka: julayi
• → Urdu: جولائ‎ (jūlāī)

Translations

seventh month of the Gregorian calendar

Abaza: пхынчыльа (pxənćəlᶻa) Abkhaz: ҧхынгәы (pxəngʷə) Adyghe: бэдзэогъу (bedzewoğʷu) Afrikaans: Julie (af) Alabama: hasiholtina istontóklo Albanian: korrik m Alutiiq: Amartut Iraluat Amharic: ጁላይ (ǧulay) Apache: Western Apache: Niiʼ Dichíhé Arabic: يُولِيُو‎ (ar) m (yūliyō), تَمُّوز‎ (ar) m (tammūz) Aragonese: chulio (an) m Armenian: հուլիս (hy) (hulis) Old Armenian: յուլիս (yulis) Aromanian: alunar, iuliu, curic Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܡܘܿܙ‎ m (tamoz) Asturian: xunetu (ast) m Atikamekw: Mikomini pisimw Azerbaijani: iyul (az) Basque: uztail (eu) Belarusian: лі́пень (be) m (lípjenʹ) Bengali: জুলাই (bn) (julai) Bislama: julae Brahui: Jaoláí Breton: Gouere (br), miz Gouere Bulgarian: ю́ли (bg) m (júli) Burmese: ဇူလိုင် (my) (juluing), ခုနှစ်လ (hku.hnacla.) Catalan: juliol (ca) m Central Dusun: Madas Chechen: Товбецан-бутт (Towbecan-butt) Cherokee: ᎫᏰᏉᏂ (guyequoni), ᎫᏰᏉᎾ (guyequona) Chichewa: Julaye Chinese: Cantonese: 七月 (cat1 jyut6) Dungan: чийүә (čiyüə) Hakka: 七月 (chhit-ngie̍t) Mandarin: 七月 (zh), 7月 (zh) (qīyuè) Min Nan: 七月 (chhit-go̍eh, chhit-ge̍h, chhit-gōe) Chukchi: анойъэлгын (anojʺėlgyn), анойъэԓгын (anojʺėḷgyn), тавтынйъэԓгын (tavtynjʺėḷgyn) Chuvash: утӑ (ut̬ă) Coptic: ⲓⲟⲩⲗⲓⲟⲥ (ioulios) Cornish: mis Gortheren m Corsican: lugliu (co) Czech: červenec (cs) m Dakota: Mdokecokawi Danish: juli (da) c Dhivehi: ޖުލައި‎ (julai) Dutch: juli (nl) m Dzongkha: སྤྱི་ཟླ་བདུན་པ། (spyi zla bdun pa) Emilian: lój Erzya: медьков (medʹkov) Esperanto: julio (eo), Julio Estonian: juuli (et) Ewe: Siamlɔm, Yuli Faroese: juli Fijian: Jiulai Finnish: heinäkuu (fi) French: juillet (fr) m Friulian: Lui Galician: xullo (gl) m Georgian: ივლისი (ka) (ivlisi) German: Juli (de) m, Heuert (de) m (archaic) Gilbertese: Turai Greek: Ιούλιος (el) m (Ioúlios) Greenlandic: juuli Haitian Creole: jiyè Hausa: Yuli Hawaiian: Iulai Hebrew: יוּלִי‎ (he) (yúli) Hindi: जूलाई (hi) f (jūlāī) Hungarian: július (hu) Icelandic: júlí (is) m, júlímánuður m Ido: julio (io) Inari Sami: syeinimáánu Indonesian: juli Interlingua: julio (ia) Inuktitut: ᔪᓚᐃ (iu) (yolai) Inupiaq: Isavik, Iñukkuksaivik Irish: Iúil (ga) m Italian: luglio (it) m Japanese: 七月 (ja) (shichigatsu), 文月 (ja) (ふみづき, fumizuki, ふづき, fuzuki) Javanese: juli Kabuverdianu: júliu Kambera: wulang pitu Kapampangan: Pángapitung búlan, Ulyu Kazakh: шілде (kk) (şılde) Khmer: កក្កដា (km) (kakkədaa) Kikuyu: Gathano Kongo: yuli Korean: 7월(月) (ko) (chirwol), 칠월(七月) (ko) (chirwol) Kyrgyz: июль (ky) (iyulʹ) Ladin: messel Lao: ເດືອນກໍລະກົດ (dư̄an kǭ la kot) Latin: iūlius (la) Latvian: jūlijs (lv) m Lezgi: чиле (čile) Ligurian: lûggio Limburgish: Juli Lingala: yúli Lithuanian: liepa (lt) f Livonian: jūlij, āinakū Lombard: löj, lüj Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: juli German Low German: Juli m, Heumaand m Luxembourgish: Juli (lb) m, Heemount (lb) m Macedonian: јули (mk) m (juli) Malay: julai Malayalam: ജൂലൈ (ml) (jūlai) Maltese: Lulju (mt) m Manchu: ᠨᠠᡩᠠᠨ ᠪᡳ᠍ᠶᠠ Maori: Hūrae Marathi: जुलै (julai) Mingrelian: კვირკვე (ḳvirḳve) Mirandese: Júlio m Mongolian: долдүгаар сар (doldügaar sar) Montagnais: shetan-pishimᵘ Mòcheno: heibeger m Navajo: Yaʼiishjáástsoh Neapolitan: iuglio m, lùglio North Frisian: Föhr-Amrum: jüüle m Mooring: foodermoune m, juuli m Sylt: Fođermuun m, Juuli m Northern Sami: suoidnemánnu Northern Sotho: Mosegamanye Norwegian: Bokmål: juli (no) m Nynorsk: juli (nn) m Occitan: julhet (oc) m Ojibwe: aabita-niibino-giizis Old English: se æfterra līþa m Oriya: ଜୁଲାଇ (or) (julai) Oromo: Adooleessa (om) Ossetian: июль (ijulʹ) Pashto: جولای‎ f (ǰolãy) Pennsylvania German: Tschulei, Yuli Persian: ژوئیه‎ (fa) (žu’iye) Punjabi: ਜੁਲਾਈ m (julāī) Plautdietsch: Juli m Polish: lipiec (pl) m inan Portuguese: julho (pt) m Romanian: iulie (ro) m, (popular) cuptor (ro) Romansch: fanadour m, fanadur m, fenadur m, lügl m Russian: ию́ль (ru) m (ijúlʹ) Samoan: iulai Sardinian: alzolas, argiolas, trébua, tríbulas, trìulas Saterland Frisian: Juli Scots: Julie Scottish Gaelic: Iuchar m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ју̑л m, ју̑ли m, ср̑пањ m Roman: jȗl m, jȗli (sh) m, sȓpanj (sh) m Shona: Chikunguru Sicilian: giugnettu (scn) m, lugghiu (scn) m, lugliu (scn) m Sinhalese: ජූලි (si) (jūli) Skolt Sami: sueiʹnnmään Slovak: júl (sk) Slovene: júlij (sl) m Sotho: Phupu (st) Spanish: julio (es) m Svan: გვირკ (gvirḳ) Swazi: Khólwáne (ss) Swedish: juli (sv) c Tagalog: Hulyo (tl) Tahitian: tiurai Tajik: июл (tg) (iyul) Tatar: июль (iyul’) Telugu: జూలై (te) (jūlai) Thai: กรกฎาคม (th) (gà-rá-gà-daa-kom) Tok Pisin: julai Tongan: Siulai Turkish: temmuz (tr), orakayı (tr), yanarayı (tr), biçim ayı (tr) Turkmen: iýul Udmurt: пӧсьтолэзь (pösʹtolezʹ) Ukrainian: ли́пень (uk) m (lýpenʹ) Urdu: جولائ‎ f (jūlāī) Uyghur: ئىيۇل‎ (iyul), يەتتىنچى ئاي‎ (yettinchi ay) Uzbek: iyul (uz) Venetian: lujo (vec) Vietnamese: tháng bảy (vi), tháng 7 Võro: hainakuu Walloon: djulete (wa) Welsh: Gorffennaf (cy) m West Frisian: july (fy), haaimoanne Winnebago: Waxoc wiira Wolof: Sulet Yakut: От ыйа (Ot ıya) Yiddish: יולי‎ (yi) m (yuli) Yup'ik: Ingun Zazaki: Temuze, Paliyan Zuni: Kwa'shi'amme Yachunne, Dayamcho Yachunne

See also

• 7/7
• July-flower
• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December ^{(Category: en:Gregorian calendar months)}

Etymology 2

A translation of the French surname Juillet.

Proper noun

July (plural Julys)

1. A surname from French.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, July is the 40261^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 544 individuals. July is most common among Black/African American (45.04%) White (39.89%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “July”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 258.